Elders Real Estate

½ cup (125ml) (single or pouring) cream
300g (10 1/2 oz) dark chocolate, chopped
1½ cups (375ml) (single or pouring) cream, extra
1½ cups (375g) mascarpone cheese
2 tablespoons coffee-flavoured liqueur
1/3 cup (80ml) espresso coffee, cooled
12 store-bought sponge finger biscuits

METHOD

Line a 32 x 7 x 8cm (12 ¾ x 2 ¾ x 3 ¼ in) bar tin with non-stick baking paper.

Place the cream and chocolate in a small saucepan over low heat and stir until the chocolate is melted. Set aside to cool.

Whisk together the extra cream and mascarpone until light and fluffy.

In a separate bowl, combine the liqueur and coffee and quickly dip both sides of the biscuits in the mixture.

Pour 1/3 of the chocolate mixture into the tin and top with 1/3 of the cream and half the biscuits.

Top with another 1/3 of the cream followed by the remaining biscuits and cream.
Pour over another 1/3 of the chocolate mixture and set the remaining 1/3 aside.

Cover the tiramisu with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for 3 hours or until set.

To serve, warm the remaining chocolate mixture in a small saucepan over low heat.

Carefully invert the tiramisu and serve the warm chocolate separately.

source: recipefinder.com.au

This Edition's Horoscope

This edition's Horoscope "Capricorn"

The months ahead are likely to start with a change of image or a complete make-over, as you begin to pay more attention to the way people see you. The material things in life will become very important, but you’ll feel less easy talking about your feelings, especially during the late spring, when you’ll be inclined to brood and dwell on things rather than sharing any day-to-day problems. A close friend, most likely a water sign, will be important in helping you through this phase around this time, but don’t worry, because by September things will be picking up nicely as a sense of adventure overcomes you. This mood will continue well into the winter, when you’re likely to discover a whole new direction in life!

Staff Profile

Kerrie Bradley - Sales

Kerrie has lived and worked in the Redlands for the last 14years and sold Real Estate since 2002 with the Ray White Group allowing her to win many awards along the way.

The past 12 months Kerrie has been selling house & land packages to investors and assisting them with their portfolio requirements. Kerrie believes in building relationships with her clients and fellow real estate agents.

She is easy to get along with, loyal and willing to make the process stress free for her clients either selling or buying. Kerrie would love the opportunity to help you with your Real Estate needs.

Kerrie Bradley stands for “Building Relationships"

Office: 07 3821 8888
Fax: 07 3821 8889
Mobile: 0408 836 196

kerrie.bradley@elderscleveland.com.au

Median Prices

For current median price statistics on each suburb in the Redlands area, simply click here and then select the suburb you are interested in to be taken directly to the RP Data website for the related information on that area!

Thinking of a career change

When asked, we always tell people that the secret of success in real estate is quite simple – work for the best office in the best market area and your success is almost assured.

Here at Elders Cleveland, we believe that we can offer the opportunity for the right people to achieve the highest rewards in the profession. Not that high achievement in real estate is by any means easy!

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Sellers Tips

For most of us, our home will probably be the most valuable asset we will ever sell. So it’s important to obtain the maximum price the market is prepared to pay. Anyone can “Sell” your home, but at how many thousands of dollars less than what you should have obtained?

It is important to understand that when you market your property for sale, it is in competition with every other similar property currently on the market. If your property is priced substantially above all the other similar properties on the market place then all that will be achieved will be to help all the other properties to sell at the expense of your property. Buyers don’t just buy the first house they see – ask yourself how many houses you looked at before you bought your home.

So how do you ensure that the highest possible price has been achieved?

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Queenslanders head Australian Ballet School's intake

MELBOURNE'S ballet scene will be hit by a maroon invasion next month.

Eleven Queensland dancers, the highest number from any state, have been accepted into the inaugural full-time level 4 program at the Australian Ballet School in Melbourne. Only 26 dancers are accepted.

ABS head of teacher training Mark Annear judged auditions from almost 600 dancers around the country last year and said competition for level 1 to 6 positions was fierce.

"It says a lot about the achievement of Queenslanders to have such a huge number. It's very surprising," he said.

"The standard in Brisbane is just as strong as Sydney and Melbourne, they are the three main cities.

"There has been a big improvement in Queensland over the last four or five years."

Six of the ABS-bound dancers will star in the Ballet Theatre of Queensland's Don Quixote at the Playhouse Theatre on January 14-17. They are Kate Hall, Ashleigh Bennett, Isabella Elordi, Tahlia Lampitt, Emma McFarlane and Sasha Moffatt, who will dance the lead of Kitri.

Meet the cast of Don Quixote

source: news.com.au

The Ballet Theatre of Queensland

proudly presents

Don Quixote

The Playhouse QPAC

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Formed in 1937, BTQ is the oldest classical dance company in Australia

BTQ is a non-profit organization. We receive no operational or recurrent funding from any level of government and survive purely on paid performances at school holiday venues and on box office from our major annual production performed at the Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) at South Bank, Brisbane.

BTQ auditions annually for our company members from ballet schools throughout South-East Queensland.

BTQ performs classical ballets targeted at a young family audience and we therefore nurture not only young dance talent in Queensland, but also new young audiences.

Redlands tip fees set to spark rise in illegal dumping

ILLEGAL dumping in the Redlands, southeast of Brisbane, is expected to rise by 20 per cent in the next year after the introduction of tip fees.

Redland City Council imposed gate charges at dumps in the region in December in a bid to raise revenue.

But the move has backfired, with outraged residents dumping their rubbish at the side of the road rather than pay the fee.

Council chief executive Gary Stevenson yesterday said council had increased its rubbish clean-up budget by 20 per cent even before the new tip fees came into force because it had expected increased illegal dumping.

Councillors say they are now taking record numbers of calls from residents complaining about the problem.

Redland City Councillor Karen Williams, who opposed the charges, said the scheme had been poorly thought out.

"The Redlands is a region of natural beauty, with many conservation areas that are being spoiled by rubbish," Cr Williams said.

"To have anticipated a 20 per cent rise in illegal dumping and still introduced the tipping fees is a complete flip on our clean, green policy."

Under the new charges, cars pay $4 tip entry, utes or vans $8 and trucks $24.

Vehicles with trailers pay double, with a 50 per cent discount for green waste and no charge for recyclables.

In the past, the tips at Birkdale and Redland Bay have been funded through the council's rates for waste and recycling.

Despite the new fees, this charge has also increased by $5 to $230 a year.

In a community letter to residents, Mayor Melva Hobson said the tip fees had helped keep the waste rate rise to a minimum.

Yesterday she denied there had been an increase in illegal dumping and accused her councillors of actively searching for dumped waste to "justify an argument".

But Mr Stevenson estimated an increase in illegal dumping of 3 per cent in the past month.

He said that increasing the clean-up budget ahead of the fee introduction was "good governance".

source: news.com.au

Bank error leaves man $208 billion overdrawn

A BRITISH man was left in major shock when his bank statement showed him to be £100 billion ($208 billion) overdrawn.

As if the credit crunch was not hitting Britons hard enough, Donald Moffat was temporarily in deep, deep, deep financial trouble - due to a "technical error'.

The 38-year-old, from Irvine on Scotland's east coast, said his wife noticed the somewhat "major discrepancy of two £50-billion debits' after he logged on to his account online.

"When I saw it - I've been shaking, I've been feeling sick - everything,' the stunned student and part-time care worker told the BBC.

"We knew we still had quite a bit left in the account as we checked last night before we went out.

"This morning I went out to get a few things then, when I came back, my account was overdrawn by that amount.'

Barclays bank said in a statement: "A technical error caused some customer accounts to be incorrectly debited.

"The problem was immediately identified and corrected within less than an hour, and all affected customer accounts are now showing correct balances.

"No customers will be financially impacted by this error. We apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused our customers.'

source: news.com.au

Man gets plaster cast of giant cat prints found near Gympie

A GIANT cat is stalking wildlife in rural Glenwood, north of Gympie, and Colin Rossow says he has the proof - a plaster paw print cast.

Mr Rossow, 67, who retired to his rural acreage in Pepper Rd 16 months ago, said there was no doubt some sort of panther-size cat was living in the area, The Courier-Mail reports.

"I grew up in the bush and I know when big cats are around," he said. "I've heard this cat before. It's not a kangaroo or a dog ... it's a caterwauling and sometimes it sort of grunts and chuffs."

Mr Rossow said his suspicions were confirmed when he was using his excavator to move stumps after heavy rain last week and spotted big paw prints in the mud.

"There was still this one big print where a kangaroo had come around the corner fast and sort of half slipped and the cat had come around after it and leaned into the corner with its front right paw," he said.

"There was one, big, perfect print and I had some gyprock plaster in the shed so I got a cast of it."

The cast shows a lion-sized paw print, bigger than his fist, measuring 14.5cm long by 13cm wide with a deep pad and four toes with retractable cat-like claws.

He said that since the incident he had hardly seen any kangaroos grazing around his property.

Mr Rossow said he had also spoken to a neighbour who told of two girls who reported seeing a "big, black cat" in bush fringing the area.

The Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service has a file documenting a report from a farmer at Withcott, at the bottom of the Toowoomba Range, who saw "a very large black cat" in 2003, and other reports of big cat sightings in the Toowoomba region, particularly in 1997.

Local legend also includes sightings of a black panther-like creature in the Gayndah area, northwest of Gympie.

source: news.com.au